PSY 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psych, Operant Conditioning, Wilhelm Wundt
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Cognitive psych : the study of the mental process by which humans learn about the world (acquire knowledge) and interact with the world (use knowledge) Topics include: perception, attention, memory, language, knowledge, thinking. Actions, thoughts, and feelings depend on knowledge. What things mean and why we do things. Structuralism : explained perception as the adding up of small units called sensation. Analytic introspection : describe experiences thought response to stim in terms of mental elements. Extremely variable results from person to person. Results hard to verify because interpreted in terms of invisible inner mental processes. Behaviorism : states observable behavior provides the only valid data for psych. Concepts such as id, ego, and superego are rejected as untestable. Focuses on the behavior we observe and ignores the mind (can"t obx mental process) Watson and b. f. skinner were radical behaviorists. Skinner believed all bx was the result of conditioning.
